Green likely to sign for Toowoomba

THE Toowoomba Mountaineers may have found one of the players they need to help them out of basketball’s doldrums with possible recruit Thalo Green impressing on his way to winning the National One-on-One Basketball Association tournament at the weekend.

Green, a former NBL player, met exciting young forward Dario Streebl in yesterday’s final at Harristown State High School, but was too strong, taking home the $600 first-place purse.

A contract with the Mountaineers beckons for Green and Streebl who both impressed new coach Pop Dickerson.

“I invited both Thalo and Dario up and they didn’t let me down,” Dickerson said.

“They both showed they were of Australian Basketball Association calibre.”

But Green says a final decision on whether to accept Dickerson’s offer to join the Mountaineers could depend on family and work commitments.

Green, 32, averaged 27.1 points per game for the Caboolture Suns in the QBL last season, the second highest average in the competition, and his signing would be a major coup for the Mountaineers.

Dickerson also has his eye on Germany’s Oliver Block, who was in Toowoomba for the one-on-one tournament and could join the Mountaineers as a much-needed import player.

One of the upsets of the tournament came in the second round when former NBL player Andre Moore lost to 16-year-old Jeffrey O’Brien.

The only Toowoomba Mountaineers players to advance through to yesterday’s elimination finals were Charles and Anthony Dickerson.